Are these temps for real?

[Noya]

I've had this Biostar TForce s939 motherboard for about...10 months, and I recall the aluminum heatsinks on it were always warm to the touch. I just installed SpeedFan for CPU temp monitoring as I've read it's better than CoreTemp, and here are the temps:


I then opened the case (120mm intake/exhaust) and touched them and they are HOT!

I'm assuming one is on the onboard video chipset which I'm not using (7600gt).

What should I do...what can I do?

 

[badge]

I've had this Biostar TForce s939 motherboard for about...10 months, and I recall the aluminum heatsinks on it were always warm to the touch. I just installed SpeedFan for CPU temp monitoring as I've read it's better than CoreTemp, and here are the temps:
[url]http://hidebehind.com/lthumbs/3A/3AE022.jpg[/url]

I then opened the case (120mm intake/exhaust) and touched them and they are HOT!

I'm assuming one is on the onboard video chipset which I'm not using (7600gt).

What should I do...what can I do?

You cut the picture off in the middle where no one can see what is being measured, but if you are referring to the 100 + readings with the flames shooting out that is a measurement of very likely...nothing.

 

[pavel-]

speedfan fills in sensors it doesnt find with 120+ degrees Celcius, they are not valid, nor do they exist, simply disable them from showing.

if you touched a piece of metal thats 127 degrees C you would have burnt your finger, boiling point of water is approximately 100 degrees C ...

 

[Noya]

speedfan fills in sensors it doesnt find with 120+ degrees Celcius, they are not valid, nor do they exist, simply disable them from showing.

if you touched a piece of metal thats 127 degrees C you would have burnt your finger, boiling point of water is approximately 100 degrees C ...

Are you sure?

I just placed a finger on one of the heatsinks and by the count of three I had to pull it off because of the temp. By contrast, the CPU heatsink feels cool and the GPU heatsink isn't hot either.

SpeedFan shows two 127*c temps and I have two, very hot heatsinks on the board.

 

[badge]

A couple of well placed intake/exhaust fans might cool down the chips you are finding to be hot to the touch, but the 127 c temps shown by speedfan are programed to look like that when they are not in use by the software.

 

[badge]

Are you sure?

I just placed a finger on one of the heatsinks and by the count of three I had to pull it off because of the temp. By contrast, the CPU heatsink feels cool and the GPU heatsink isn't hot either.

SpeedFan shows two 127*c temps and I have two, very hot heatsinks on the board.

Here is the current desktop with speedfan on my FX55 at work. My CPU is 39C. The two 127C readings are not programmed to read the temp of any par of my computer.

http://img489.imageshack.us/img489/8872/fx55desktoppu4.jpg

 

[badge]

You can click the configure icon and remove the 127 c readings.

 

[Noya]

I see yours, look at mine:



And if it's not 127*c, are the chips under the two heatsinks even being monitored?

The CPU is a 25, the 7600gt is at about 50, these heatsinks are seriously burning hot in comparison.

 

[badge]

Speedfan doen't measure northbridge temps as far as I know. I've never tried to set it to do that. Speedfan measures CPU, system, hard drives and cpu core temps. You have a Nforce 4 soc 939 MB as I do. I have 3 of them. Two running sli. Like the one I showed you is an FX55 in an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium MB running dual 7600GTs. The NF4 chips do tend to run hot. I have the A8N32-SLI Deluxe with the dual 16 x northbridge running dual 7800GT's. That thing is so hot! It is one of the hottest MB's made. Try and get some intake/ ehhaust fans to create better airflow in your case. That's what I did.

 

[Noya]

http://www.digital-daily.com/motherboard/biostar_tforce_6100/

It appears the heatsinks can be quite warm.

Scroll up one pic from the bottom, and look at the number on the chip, they match my 127*c degree SpeedFan reading...

 

[badge]

Are you using a video card or the onboard video? Like I said, I have a hard time cooling my socket 939 NF4 boards (yours is not nf4). My A8N32-SLI 939 drove me nuts trying to cool it. I used multiple case fans. I'll try and get a picture up later. You will be shocked at how I solved the cooling problem on that board.

 

[badge]

The 127 c speedfan reading is a program default that means nothing. This is common knowledge around this Forum.

 

[systemlord]

I see yours, look at mine:
[url]http://hidebehind.com/lthumbs/1E/1E6B4B.jpg[/url]
[url]http://hidebehind.com/lthumbs/55/55C2B8.jpg[/url]

And if it's not 127*c, are the chips under the two heatsinks even being monitored?

The CPU is a 25, the 7600gt is at about 50, these heatsinks are seriously burning hot in comparison.

My Speed Fan says the same thing 127C, your worrying about nothing. My heat sinks are hot to the point where if I leave my finger on them for two seconds, my finger gets hot. Nvidia chipsets tend to run hotter than Intel chipsets.

 

[badge]

Pic of my ASUS A8N32-SLI 4800X2. Notice all the fans and the two 7800GTs. @OP...you can reduce the temps on those MB chips with cooling like I did.

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/9340/img0037ql5.jpg

 

[Noya]

Thanks for all the info guys...call me a worry wart lol.

That is a crazy cooling setup! I guess I should mount a 120mm fan to the back of my hard disk bay and upgrade the 120mm intake fan. Maybe pull the CPU duct and add a fan there since the North Bridge? chip is below the CPU socket.

Thanks again.

 

[badge]

Sounds good Noya. You will lower your NB and cae temps by doing that. GL.